LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI COALPORT A Limited Edition of2500 The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.
Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save...
Category: Advertisement
Ocean Packet No. 3
NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 17th April, at 9 A.M., the brigantine Ocean Packet No. 3, of Harlingen, was obliged by strong wind and heavy sea following on an easterly storm, to run .from her anchorage off St. John's Point and drive...
Disaster at Fraserburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...
Category: Services
"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 7.—The 41-Feet Watson Type
THE 41-feet Watson motor life-boat is intended for those stations where a powerful life-boat, of the stable type, is needed, but where the conditions of service make it impossible or unneces- sary to place the 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) or...
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Disaster at Broughty Ferry
IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...
Category: Articles
(Below) Now That the Twin Ford 27I2E Marine Diesels Have Been Installed Fitting Is Going Ahead of All Pipework Such As Exhaust Closed Water Cooling and Fuel System
(Below) Now that the twin Ford 27I2E marine diesels have been installed, fitting is going ahead of all pipework, such as exhaust, closed water cooling and fuel systems, as well as electric wiring for controls.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
H.M. Motor Anti-Submarine Boat No. 25. and another Motor Boat
JANUARY 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A quarter of an hour after midnight a message came from Dover that two motor boats were aground near the East Goodwins, 2 1/4 miles from the No. 2 Buoy. The motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...